Bicycle rant 1
I am trying to do more biking, and have been tuning up and adding to my vehicle to make it useful in more situations. One recent addition is lights (front and back) for night time safety.
I hadn't done much biking at night in the past - usually only a few blocks on familiar low traffic residential streets - so I hadn't been prepared for tonight's ride home along the bike path where every few tens of meters, another cyclist would emmerge from the shadows without helmet, without light and in a few cases, without visible reflectors. What? How? Why?
Bike paths aren't very wide, and in the few cases where I was trying to pass one of these reflectorless, lightless, helmetless dark clothing wearing idiots pedalling with their knees out, I could only hope that there weren't invisible bikes in the oncoming lane.
Besides that, it was a pretty nice ride, and while I did fall off my bike, it was on a grassy patch, so nothing broke.
I hadn't done much biking at night in the past - usually only a few blocks on familiar low traffic residential streets - so I hadn't been prepared for tonight's ride home along the bike path where every few tens of meters, another cyclist would emmerge from the shadows without helmet, without light and in a few cases, without visible reflectors. What? How? Why?
Bike paths aren't very wide, and in the few cases where I was trying to pass one of these reflectorless, lightless, helmetless dark clothing wearing idiots pedalling with their knees out, I could only hope that there weren't invisible bikes in the oncoming lane.
Besides that, it was a pretty nice ride, and while I did fall off my bike, it was on a grassy patch, so nothing broke.